Sentences with phrase «labour shadow education minister»

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The former shadow education minister Tristram Hunt had a decidedly mixed 2015, but he recently talked pretty powerfully at the Fabian Society about the politics of inequality, Labour's frayed bond with working - class voters and the necessity of reinventing the party's belief in redistribution.

In a highly unusual move, the Tory former education secretary Nicky Morgan joins forces with her previous Labour shadow Lucy Powell and the Liberal Democrat former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg to condemn the plans as damaging to social mobility, ideologically driven and divisive.

The historian and shadow education minister took delegates on a «radical walk» through Brighton yesterday evening, to explore its landmarks of Labour history

On BBC Question Time on February 5, Labour's shadow education minister Tristram Hunt made a remark appearing to link weak, unqualified teachers to religious education, specifically Catholic schooling provided by nuns.

Labour's shadow education minister Tristram Hunt argued recently for the introduction of career education into primary schools, particularly for girls.

As I understand it, Labour's shadow education minister Tristram Hunt is promising to reinstate the requirement that the children's centres in the poorest areas must provide childcare suitable for working parents.

That is the tradition of a shadow Education Minister popping up to tell is that the increased number of passes and the higher proportion of students getting top marks was because under Labour the exams were getting easier.

The much deferred announcement is due at the end of the month, but some senior vice chancellors last month infuriated the Labour front bench by issuing an open letter opposing the tuition fee cut only days after meeting the shadow higher education minister, Liam Byrne.

They include Chi Onwurah, the former minister for culture and the digital economy, who wrote that it was «statistically interesting to say the least» that Labour's leader had made life difficult for two of the very few minority ethnic female MPs; and Pat Glass, who resigned as shadow education secretary in June two days after being appointed, in protest over Corbyn's leadership.

There was of course the inevitable attack on shadow education minister Tristram Hunt's short speech at last week's Labour conference.

Labour's shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, said: «When even the Conservative - dominated education select committee calls Theresa May's new grammar schools an «unnecessary distraction», it's time that ministers finally sat up and took notice.

Conservative shadow education minister Angela Burns ridiculed Labour for seeking to «raise Welsh performance from the worst performing UK nation to the second worst by 2021».

Rayner has revealed that she will continue to lead Labour's education team, backed up by Kane, who is the new shadow schools minister.

But Professor Arthur was reprimanded by Kevin Brennan (pictured), the former shadow schools minister, who said: «It's interesting that, having blamed the Labour party for current Tory education policy, he's taking advantage of it by opening a free school in Birmingham, which is very interesting rhetorical gymnastics.»

Lord Watson, the shadow education minister in the House of Lords, told a fringe event at the Labour party conference that the party was in the «early stages» of policy development.

Lucy Powell, the Labour MP and former shadow education secretary, said: «The new prime minister or the new education secretary should urgently make a statement to Parliament about such a huge change in education policy.

Angela Burns AM, the Conservatives» shadow minister for education, said: «It is a year since Labour's school banding policy was introduced, yet it remains vague, confusing and unhelpful.»